Trouble using _$POST w/MySQL Table

Question

I have a project that I am using OpenJS grid with a Bootstrap modal to POST rows to the table. I have used this basic outline before and it has always worked. But now with using these new elemnts I cant POST to the database. The form looks like:

  <!-- Add Message Form--------------------------------------------------------------------------->
        <div class="container">
  <h2>Memo</h2>
  <form role="form" action="add.php" method="post">
    <div class="form-group">
      <label for="from">From:</label>
      <input type="text" class="form-control" id="from" name="from_val" placeholder="Message From">
    </div>
    <div class="form-group">
      <label for="note">Enter Message:</label>
      <input type="textarea" class="form-control" rows="5" id="note" name="note_val" placeholder="Enter Your Message">
    </div>
    <div class="form-group">
      <label for="date_entered">Enter Date:</label>
      <input type="date" class="form-control" id="date_entered" name="date_val" placeholder="yyyy/mm/dd">
    </div>
    <div class="form-group">
      <label for="time_entered">Enter Time:</label>
      <input type="text" class="form-control" id="time_entered" name="time_val" placeholder="hh:mm:ss">
    </div>
    <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
    <button type="submit" id="newData" class="btn  btn-primary btn-md">Submit</button>
  </form>
   </div>
     <!-- End Form ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> 
    </div>

The php script is:

<?php

ini_set('display_errors',1); 
error_reporting(E_ALL);


header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *");
header("Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8");
include ("dbinfo.inc.php"); //include login info file

//Start a PDO session to insert the form data into the MySQL Table

try
    {
    $conn=new PDO($dsn, $username,$password);
    echo 'Connected to MySQL Ok.';
    }
catch (PDOException $e)
    {
    $error_message=$e->getMessage();
    echo "<h1>Resource Unavailable. Please Contact the System Administrator</h1>";
    }

$from=$_POST['from_val'];
$note=$_POST['note_val'];
$date=$_POST['date_val'];
$time=$_POST['time_val'];
print_r ($_POST);


if ($from !='') { $stmt = $conn->prepare("INSERT INTO Messages SET from = :from, note = :note, date = :date, time = :time");


     $stmt->execute(array(
            ':from' => $from,
            ':note' => $note,
            ':date' => $date,
            ':time' => $time));


echo '<br /n>';
echo '<br /n>';
echo '<h3><center><b>Added Record Successfully</b></center></h3>';
  }

else {
echo '<br /n>';
echo '<br /n>';
echo 'Attention. You Did Not Enter a Message. Please enter the Message<br /n>';
echo 'At a Minimum..';
}
?>

I checked the php and it validates ok. On the add.php page I get this after adding a record:

Connected to MySQL Ok.Array
(
    [from_val] => alan
    [note_val] => test message.
    [date_val] => 2015/03/22
    [time_val] => 12:00:10
)
<br /n><br /n><h3><center><b>Added Record Successfully</b></center></h3>

This does not look right to me. I dont remember POST info in this format before when I was troubleshooting issues.